Early Modern Knowledge of the Islamic Orient : Experience and Intertextuality in Bohemian Travel Accounts (16th-17th Centuries)

Abstract

The study deals with ways in which travel experience was co-created in the early modern travel eccounts of Bohemian origin describing the Islamic Orient. The author concentrates above all on shared discursive frameworks which mediated raw travel experience to the period's reading public.

Keywords

• early modern
• experience
• Bohemian Lands
• travel literature
• Near East
• Islam
• Other